Crop and soil diseases can be a farmers worst nightmare.

This is why most farmers put different crops in each of their fields each year, as over time diseases can creep into the soil if the same crops go in year after year.

MD of Foothills Agriculture Fieldman Jeff Porter, says soil borne diseases can be mitigated.

"Some can be managed by seed treatments. Others the disease is in the soil, the levels are there and they may have to take a few years off of planting that one specific crop."

Porter says most farmers run a standard rotation between wheat, barley, canola and peas, rarely planting the same crop in the same field two years in a row.

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